Overview
Track
Track 4: Safeguarding Urban Resilience
Company / Institute
Ressano Garcia, Arquitectos
Position
Senior Architect
I'm interested in
City and Regional Planning
Heritage and Conservation
Landscape, Architecture and Urban Design
Sustainability and Resilience
Bio
Pedro Ressano Garcia currently shares his time between research, teaching and architecture practice.
Garcia started teaching at University of California at Berkeley in 1996. He teaches at University Laval, Quebec, Canada and lectures in international seminars, workshops and conferences, and publishes regularly with prestigious editors.
He is the author of the book Tagus Platform – Back to the River, Lisbon’s waterfront and the 21st Century, and the editor of six books produced by the European Workshops on Waterfront Urban Design. Since 2019 he coordinates a H2020 research project on European waterfront cities' adaptation to climate change.
In his office in Lisbon, Ressano Garcia Arquitectos, theory and practice are combined in projects of architecture, urban design and in the development of studies and ideas that give value to each cultural reality. This work has been published extensively in books, magazines and international events. In 2018, the office received the Merit Award in the Hsinta Ecological Power Plant International Competition, Taiwan.
